Project objectives are to:
- Develop, validate, and execute Smartphone apps for citrus, cotton, strawberry, and urban lawn to provide real-time and forecasting information that can be used for more efficient irrigation and water conservation (research objective);
- Incorporate stakeholders into the Smartphone app development process through focus group app piloting and continued review (model validation) (stakeholder objective);
- Conduct in-service training events for county agents and specialists, conduct stakeholder training events (local, regional, and national venues), develop and maintain dedicated web site, and further advertise the tools through web, email, extention publications, local newsletters (extension objective); and
- Further disseminate the methodology of Smartphone science-based apps to professional audiences through publication of this process and its nuances and conference presentations and to collegiate audiences through teaching modules designed and incorporated into course programs (educational objective).
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